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(PACA) Field Guide for Volunteers Peace Corps The Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA) Field Guide for Volunteers OFFICE OF OVERSEAS PROGRAMMING AND TRAINING SUPPORT (OPATS) May 2018 Publication No. M0127 Paul D. Coverdell Peace Corps Headquarters 1111 20th Street NW, Washington, DC 20526 KEY CONCEPTS This Field Guide is built upon (and owes heavily to) the concepts detailed below. These concepts are central to your work as a Peace Corps Volunteer, so read on! It’s worth noting that you may find some contradictions among the following concepts. For example, some pinpoint problems or needs while others focus on developing assets and strengths. That’s OK. The Field Guide acknowledges the value of all of these various concepts and approaches and aims to incorporate the best of each. These key concepts are referenced throughout the Field Guide with this symbol: Remember to flip back to these pages to refresh your memory as needed. Appreciative inquiry Appreciative inquiry is an approach to community development that seeks to engage stakeholders in self- determined change. It is based on the belief that human systems are best made and imagined by those who live and work within them. When applied, appreciative inquiry is the cooperative search for the best in people, their organizations, and the world around them. Appreciative inquiry involves the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to heighten positive potential. Learn more: A Positive Revolution in Change: Appreciative Inquiry by David L. Cooperrider Asset-based community development (ABCD) Asset-based community development is a strategy for sustainable community-driven development. ABCD is premised on the idea that communities can drive the development process themselves by identifying and mobilizing existing—but often unrecognized—assets, thereby responding to and creating local economic opportunity. ABCD intentionally starts with assets instead of problems or needs. Learn more: ABCD Institute Community “Community” in terms of your Peace Corps service can be defined in different ways depending on the situation. Sometimes it will be important to think of community as the administrative unit in which you live. Other times, you might be thinking about natural resource availability and thus think of community as the geographic watershed of land where water flows and drains. For some projects, you may need to focus on a specific subset of people, such as pregnant or lactating mothers, and consider them the community. Maintaining a flexible definition of community and exploring new perspectives will be an important part of your service. Human-centered design (HCD)/design thinking Human-centered design (also known as design thinking) is a creative approach to problem solving. It’s a process that starts with the users you’re designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor-made to suit their needs, challenges, opportunities, and problems. HCD develops solutions by purposefully involving the end users’ perspectives in all steps of the design process. Design-thinking strategies are highly hands- on, team-oriented, and typically characterized by overlapping, fluid phases rather than a linear set of steps Learn more: IDEO, The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design 3 Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) Participatory rural appraisal is an approach to development that aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in the planning and management of development projects and programs. Learn more: Catholic Relief Services, Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) and Participatory Rural Appraisal Manual Peace Corps’ approach to development The Peace Corps’ approach to development is focused on capacity building. We see development as the opportunity to help people develop the capacity to improve their own lives. The focus of our work and development efforts is on people, not things. Learn more: Peace Corps, PACA Idea Book Project design and management (PDM) In the Peace Corps, PDM is the process of involving community members in moving from collective analysis to planning and implementing projects that meet their desires and needs—all while keeping sustainability as the end goal. PDM workshops are conducted at many posts with PCVs and their counterparts. The PDM process is the foundation of the Design and Deliver phases of the Field Guide, and several (but not all) of the PDM tools are included in these sections. Learn more: Peace Corps, Project Design and Management Workshop Training Manual Prototyping Prototyping is the process of test-driving a project for a short period of time in the real world before full implementation. What works? What needs to be changed or adjusted? Prototyping is an ongoing chance to get tons of feedback and try new approaches until you and the community find a solution that sticks. Learn more: IDEO, The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design Roles of the Peace Corps Volunteer in Development Your role in development is quite simple: help people help themselves! While this is easier said than done, as a Volunteer your role is defined around six capacity-building sub-roles: learner, change agent, co-trainer, co-facilitator, project co-planner, and mentor. Learn more: Peace Corps, Roles of the Volunteer in Development Sustainability Sustainability is the ultimate end goal of any project you support as a Volunteer. Think of sustainability as making it stick. The projects you carry out alongside community members should continue on and thrive long after you—and any subsequent PCVs—depart. 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The PACA Field Guide for Volunteers is both a revision of the 2007 edition of The PACA: Participatory Analysis for Community Action Training Manual [ICE No. M0053] originally published in 1996, and a consolidation of content included in Gender and Development Training [ICE No. M0054] as well as the PACA Idea Book [ICE No. M0083]. True to the principles and approaches embodied by PACA, this resource was developed over the course of three years by a PACA working group that utilized participatory approaches and tools, human-centered design thinking, and a formal piloting of a Field Guide prototype in order to collaboratively dream, design, and deliver this resource. The PACA working group consisted of PC/Washington staff members Adam Beebe, Courtney Clark, Hannah Gardi, Gabe Krieshok, Erin Lawless, Danielle Niedermaier, Amanda Rabinowitz, Stephanie Weber, and Amanda Young. The Field Guide was piloted and improved by five Peace Corps posts: PC/Costa Rica, PC/Guatemala, PC/Guyana, PC/Malawi, and PC/Ukraine. The post staff who joined the PACA Working Group and piloted the Field Guide prototype include: Carolyn Beale, Adrian Benavides, Ashema Franklin, Maria-Cristina Garzona, Merica George, Zhanna Hrytsenko, Elizabeth Kaziya, Iryna Krupska, Vinyela Rodriguez, Fexony Sibale, and Sergio Villa. Directors of Programming and Training Craig Badger, Rachel Horta, Melanie Ingalls, Amber Lucero-Dwyer, and Pilar Robledo supported their staff’s participation in the PACA Working Group and pilot. Funding for the ToT of pilot post staff was provided by the Office of Overseas Programming and Training Support (OPATS). Funding for the initial printing of the PACA Field Guide was provided by OPATS and the Office of Global Health and HIV (OGHH). A field working group of posts also reviewed the prototype and provided feedback. Those posts include PC/Albania, PC/Botswana, PC/China, PC/Colombia, PC/Fiji, PC/Georgia, PC/Indonesia, PC/Kosovo, PC/Nepal, PC/Senegal, PC/Tanzania ,PC/Thailand, PC/Timor Leste and PC/Vanuatu. Countless Volunteers from these and other Peace Corps posts provided invaluable feedback on the Field Guide prototype. The participatory tools that make up much of the content of the PACA Field Guide for Volunteers are sourced from a variety of resources referenced throughout the Field Guide and listed in the Related Resources & Content section. Content for PACA lenses was contributed by several OPATS specialists, including Emily Clawson, Tina Cruz-Hubbard, Jess Delegencia, Jessica Folk, Kevin Giddens, Ruth Goode, D’Lynn Jacobs, Erin Lawless, Danielle Niedermaier, David Root, and Monique Widyono. Sector-specific PACA booklets to supplement this publication were compiled by OPATS and OGHH staff, including Adam Beebe, Brock Brady, Andrea DeSantis, Hannah Gardi, Rita Kamazima, Gordon Mengel, Salewa Oyelaran, Audrey Spencer, Annaliza Thomas, Carl Triplehorn, Stephanie Weber, and David Wood. The design of the Field Guide is the result of the creative vision of PC/Washington staff member Laura Pirocanac, and the design work of PC/Washington staff members Marcos Alices and Juan Carlos Polanco Santiago. Editing of the Field Guide content was done by PC/Washington staff member Samuel Ludwig. 5 Endorsement of the revisions of PACA materials was provided by the Peace Corps Field Advisory Board (FAB). A special thank you goes to Josh Spetter from PC/Mexico for his review and contributions; to Kathryn Goldman for organizing and launching the PACA Working Group; and to Joanie Cohen-Mitchell for her invaluable support in making the PACA pilot a reality. The following interns provided invaluable production support: Matthew Eng, Emily Holzman, Samantha Perry, Amalia Rangel, and Jacob Wittbrodt. It is impossible to acknowledge the countless hands, hearts and minds that contributed to the successful creation of this publication and others supporting resources. Thank you to all who played a role, both big and small. 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Key Concepts …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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